There is no real definition of news – take a look at the sorts of stories that run every day. They may range from reports on local government actions, to sports, to stories (not really news at all) of random people who have traveled or moved abroad.

Much of the news falls into a narrow set of categories – and is often twisted to fit a current meme. I just read a story supposedly about earlier pollen seasons in Florida. Except there was not any data showing that, just mere assertions that climate change would increase the pollen count. The story idea – it’s spring time pollen season – was twisted into a story about climate change. Indeed, almost all of the story about “pollen” ended up being assertions about climate.

In today’s media, most stories seem to fall into perhaps a dozen or so memes. Some prevalent meme topics are climate (“everything is caused by climate change”), racism (“everything is racist”), LGBTQIA2+ (“everything is one of these”) and so on. When you step back and look at the big picture you soon see the pattern – everything is bent to fit into one of the meme categories.

They do not report news – they report opinions, and all news today should be labeled as “Opinion”.

Here is an example of how they twist the subject to meet someone else’s agenda:

Earlier this month, The Associated Press published a news report on general conference titled “Latter-day Saint leader addresses congregants without a word on racial or LGBTQ+ issues.” A major news outlet distilled ten hours of addresses on a variety of topics by dozens of church leaders from around the world into “they didn’t talk about race or sexuality.”

Source: The Associated Press’ general conference coverage is a cautionary tale for people of faith